# What is your favorite book whose viewpoint differs from your own?

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**Created:** [July 29, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-book-whose-viewpoint-differs-from-your-own/548404 "2010-07-29T01:55:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-book-whose-viewpoint-differs-from-your-own/548404/41 "2010-08-05T20:58:03Z")

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I might as well go find out where to turn in my ‘woman card’, because I have to say any romance/ chick-lit/ bodice-ripper/, or sex n’ shopping novel. The Flame And The Flower. The Frog Prince. Harlequin romances, Danielle Steele. I’ve read a few, and enjoyed some, but even though they’re fantasies and supposed to be fantasies, I just can’t help thinking “bogus! would never happen in real life! torn between two fabulous men - I WISH! Hot air balloon ride in France - phht!” All that fantasy directed to women is just too silly… It’s why I stopped reading Cosmopolitan magazine, after many many years - I actually believed if I did what some of the articles told me, _I_ would be a Cosmo girl with an exciting life and gorgeous rich men vying for my attention. Sadly, no, it was all just silly wanking for women.

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**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-book-whose-viewpoint-differs-from-your-own/548404/42 "2010-08-05T22:08:43Z")

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Peter Hamilton is pretty obviously liberal to the point of being an out-and-out socialist and anti-capitalist, but I really love the characters in his SF and get absorbed in his labyrinthine plots.  
This is most clearly the case in his Night’s Dawn books, but I still couldn’t put them down.

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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-book-whose-viewpoint-differs-from-your-own/548404/43 "2010-08-10T05:27:23Z")

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If the OP is a conservative I would suggest reading ([and watching via Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christopher+hitchens&aq=0)) Christopher Hitchens. I largely disagree with the guy philosophically, but man, can he ever make me stop and think. I just love the guy.

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